Product range

PENSO

PENSO is an artificial intelligence-based computational unit for imaging applications. PENSO self-learns the expected features of an object by simply looking at a small series of samples, regardless of the possible presence of defective product in the midst. Once trained, PENSO will start operating autonomously and warning you if something unwanted happens.

Object modeling, often very difficult or even impossible is therefore no longer needed; moreover, you are not asked to define possible object variations or defects
from the beginning, usually impossible. Instead, as a human operator would do after observing some samples, PENSO understands what will be considered normal
and acceptable from now on. Since neither modeling or programming is needed, with just some elementary configuration tools you can immediately understand if an application is feasible or not and really save a lot of time. Then, with minimum additional effort, you can fine tune the application and make it fully working.

Telecentric lenses

Opto Engineering Telecentric lenses represents our core business: these products benefit from a decade-long effort in progressive research & development, resulting in an extensive range of part numbers for a diverse and ever-growing number of applications.

These products achieve the highest optical performances available on the market:

extra-telecentricity for thick object imaging

very low distortion for accurate measurements

excellent resolution for small pixel cameras

wide field depth for large object displacements

pre-adjusted back focal length and working distance

compact and robust design, tailored for industrial environments

TC lenses for matrix detectors also feature:

bi-telecentric design

detailed test report for each lens

Opto Engineering testing procedures have been validated by TÜV Rheinland.

Fixed magnification telecentric lenses are an excellent choice for accurate measurement but may not be flexible enough to inspect very small features on larger samples; Moreover, if you need to accurately measure multiple sized objects (for example a set of screws), two or more fixed lenses would be needed to get the best image for each format.
Standard zoom lenses may be a good alternative, often trading convenience for modest results in terms of accuracy and repeatability. Moreover, infinite conjugate lenses like photographic equipment optics will not properly work when used to observe objects from up close.

The following product series are designed to overcome these limitations: the TCDP bi-telecentric double port, TCZR bi-telecentric zoom revolver and MCZR macro zoom revolver. They all come with extensive documentation - including specific control software - and support accessories.

360° optics

One of the most recurring demands of the machine vision market is to be able to view every surface of an object with as few cameras as possible.

This request is becoming more and more common in a variety of market areas, like the beverage, pharmaceutical and automotive industries.

Opto Engineering designed these incredible optical solutions: just one camera shot is enough to capture the top and side views of an object or the bottom and inside views of ah holed object.

Most of these special optics are unique and patented by Opto Engineering: their names are registered trademarks and you will not find similar products on the market featuring the same build quality and the same optical performances.

Macro optics

Macro lenses are Opto Engineering answer for macro-based accurate imaging. While not suited to measurement applications - due to their non-telecentric nature which allows perspective bias - they can perform close-range inspections very effectively with impressive optical performance in terms of resolution and lack of distortion.

Like all our products, these optics are built to be deployed in a production environment: their compact form factor, flexible design, optical capabilities and excellent value make these lenses an essential component of a wide range of machine vision systems.

3D optics

Opto Engineering designs 3D lenses and projectors equipped with a high-precision tilting mechanism that allows the Scheimpflug condition to be met and to image the whole field of view in perfect focus. The Scheimpflug criterion describes how an object plane that is not parallel to the image plane can be imaged completely in focus. Tilting the Scheimpflug adaptor allows us to see the field of view in focus and also allows for a precise 3D measurement to be made.

A variety of 3D machine vision applications require that structured light be directed onto a sample at a considerable angle from a vertical position. However, when light is projected onto inclined surfaces, the focus is maintained only within a small area close to the centre of the field of view. The rest of the image will show relevant defocusing thus making the 3D measurement inaccurate.

Tilting the light source pattern becomes essential to ensure that the patternned light is properly and evenly focused across the entire sample surface.

3D pattern projectors have been specifically designed by Opto Engineering for 3D profiling and for the measurement of objects with complex structures or inclined planes. They are successfully used in a variety of applications like 3D profiling for quality control, food and packaging inspection, reverse engineering and dimensional measurement of electronic components.

3D projectors can be used with different C-mount lenses however the best results are achieved with bi-telecentric lenses. Very good results can also be obtained with zero distortion macro lenses.

Infrared optics

Opto Engineering offers a wide variety of high resolution IR optics for both cooled and uncooled IR cameras spanning all IR spectral bands. Our IR optics feature large field of view and low distortion and can be equipped with any custom mount interface. MWIR and LWIR thermal series additionally include HCAR coating for usage in harsh envirornment.

LED Illuminators

llumination is a critical part of every machine vision setup: proper choice of lighting color and geometry can be used to effectively mask or reveal different features of an object,leading to a vastly simpler and accurate image processing stage.

Opto Engineering offers a wide range of illumination solutions including ring lights, dome illuminators and a unique space-saving lighting system complemented by specific power/strobe controllers. The Opto Engineering illuminators family provides innovative and robust lighting units, designed to deal with fast-moving objects
of varying sizes and surface types, such as highly reflective or curved samples.

LED Pattern projectors

Opto Engineering LED pattern projectors have been designed for 3D profiling/reconstruction and for the measurement of objects with complex structures or inclined planes.

They are successfully used in a variety of applications like quality control in food and packaging to check for correct volume, reverse engineering, dimensional measurement of electronic components,planarity control of products, robot guidance for pick and place and alignment applications.

When compared to laser emitters, LED technology ensures more homogeneous illumination in addition to sharp edges and no speckle effect.

Many 3D machine vision applications require structured light to be projected onto inclined surfaces, i.e. at a certain angle from the vertical axis. In such cases, the focus is maintained only within a small area close to the center of the field of view and the rest of the image shows relevant defocusing thus making 3D measurement inaccurate.

For this reason, our family of pattern projectors includes special projectors equipped with a high-precision tilting mechanism that allows the pattern of the light source to meet the Scheimpflug condition so that the projected light is properly and evenly focused across the entire sample surface.

All Opto Engineering LED projectors feature a wide selection of interchangeable patterns. Furthermore, the size of the projection area can be easily modified by interchanging compatible projection optics: our projectors can be used with different C-mount lenses. To achieve the best results we suggest to use bi-telecentric lenses or zero distortion macro lenses.

Adaptive optics

Adjusting the focus of a camera on a robot arm, or tracking items across the field of view, are common examples of where active focusing is required.

For this reason, Opto Engineering® in collaboration with Dynamic Optics®, has developed its adaptive focusing lens based on the most advanced technologies in piezoelectric actuation.

In order to help customers integrate the tunable lens as easily and quickly as possible, Opto Engineering® has created a small plug-and-play device with embedded optics and electronics. Adjusting focus on the fly has never been so easy.

Fixed focal

A wide range of solutions for every machine vision challenge

Opto Engineering family of fixed focal lenses comprises many optics with special features in addition to the most common types of optics used in machine vision: we offer a wide variety
of fixed focal lenses, covering small, medium and large detectors, including options for high resolution and UV imaging.

Specifically, these optics are regarded as a valid alternative to macro lenses in applications where a large field of view must be imaged and the required magnification is low.

At Opto Engineering we are constantly working to provide added-value products to our customers and this family is no in exception in fact,
in addition to common fixed focal lenses,you will find a whole new line-up of optics featuring full motorized iris and focusing that can be easily
controlled with a dedicated stepper motor controller featuring open protocol and software.

LTPKIT case

The Opto Engineering LTPKIT case includes a selection of some our high power LED illuminators working in strobe model only, a powerful strobed LED pattern projector and a 6 channel highly repeatable strobe controller designed to be precisely control the lights and easily manage the trigger signals, in addition to DIN rail industrial power supply

The high power lighting kit case is a very helpful tool for system integrators that are frequently dealing with new machine vision applications requiring high power strobed lights

The LTPKIT case also benefits from our special educational price: you should seriously consider to buy this kit for your laboratory and discover the advantages of strobed high-power lights!

LTKITRY-FH-OR-V1

Opto Engineering LTKITRY-FH-OR-V1 case includes a selection of some our commonly used LED illuminators working in continous mode, including two lighting controllers for dimming, brackets and diffusers.

The continuous lighting kit case is a very helpful tool for system integrators that are frequently dealing with new machine vision applications requiring different type of lights.

The LTKITRY-FH-OR-V1 case also benefits from our special educational price: you should seriously consider to buy this kit for your laboratory in order to be able to perfom feasibility tests with many different types of lights!

PENSO-KIT case

The PENSO-KIT case includes a selection of Opto Engineering components that will easily allow you to bring Artificial Intelligence into your applications.

This versatile kit is ideal for system integrators that are frequently dealing with new, challenging inspection processes. Artificial Intelligence can be an extremely powerful resource; therefore, it is extremely important to have quick access to it for testing, feasibility studies and demonstrations.

The kit contains PENSO, our innovative artificial-intelligence based vision unit, together with all necessary hardware to set it up: power supply, proximity sensor, color camera, 3D camera, lens, illuminator, strobe controller, cables and mounting mechanics. Saving time from choosing all the necessary individual components, a kit offers an ideal development tool at a bundle pricing.

Get the PENSO-KIT now, and start discovering the advantages of Artificial Intelligence!

Smart Cameras

Opto Engineering® expands its offering of optical imaging technologies with new families of proprietary smart cameras for VIS imaging.

CLOE optical cameras offer a new approach to machine vision applications. Camera, optics and image pre-processing hardware are packaged in a pre-assembled and pre-calibrated unit to deliver the best possible digital image right out of the box. The embedded image pre-processing functions greatly simplify software programming for image analysis, thus making CLOE cameras ready for use even with vision softwares and systems that have limited image correction tools.

Area Scan Cameras

Area scan cameras are the most commonly used cameras in machine vision. They are ideal for fast inspection applications.

With many years of experience in the Machine Vision sector, Opto Engineering® selected a series of high performance cameras to answer your needs.

Thanks to the improvement of camera technologies in the recent years, various types of cameras are in the market to answer different challenges. Following our principles, we have selected robust, compact, high image quality cameras for industrial applications including measurement, high-speed inspection, security, and much more. Various camera features can make your vision system smarter, simpler and more efficient.

Combined with Opto Engineering® lenses and illuminators, we can assist
in building a fast, reliable and cost effective system.

Machine vision software competence

Nowadays, a wide range of design activities are done or supported by task-specific software.Mechanical engineers use CAD software, optical designers use optical modeling software and so do many other engineers with different specialties.

When talking about software in the machine vision industry, the first thought goes to image processing software.

However, solving machine vision applications requires multiple software competencies as well as skilled professionals capable of developing products and solutions with the aid of dedicated software tools.

From optical and mechanical design to FPGA or driver programming, going through image processing libraries and GUI development, rarely has a single organization had all these competencies internally.

Vision system designer

The Vision system designer software is a user friendly virtual imaging laboratory for modeling machine vision applications in a 3D framework. Users can select imaging components from a catalog or model sensors, lenses and lights.

The software can simulate sensor images and is designed for early and accurate project planning, evaluation, optimization, verification and for documenting and presenting imaging applications.

Modeling brings design ideas to life where hardware costs and required time prevent a fast test. Early modeling and planning reduces project risk and saves valuable time when creating proposals and documentation.

The simulation helps identifying suitable imaging components and balancing conflicting requirements. Automatic performance analysis increases planning accuracy for each system configuration. The 3D visualizations and system reports can be used to communicate designs choices and to convince customers to buy in! Additional service for modeling required components is available.

Application notes

Vision inspection with robotic guidance opens up new opportunities in the quality control process.

Opto Engineering® machine vision components can be bundled as special optical probes and integrated on a robotic arm, allowing to successfully perform challenging measurements and inspections of parts of different shapes,
sizes, materials and colors.

FABIMAGE

FabImage Studio Professional is data-flow based software
designed for machine vision engineers. It does not require any
programming skills, but it is still so powerful that it can win even with
solutions based on low-level programming libraries.

Also, the architecture is highly flexible, ensuring that users can easily
adapt the product to the way they work and to specific requirements
of any project.

TCLIB Suite

TCLIB Suite is a C++ based computer vision software designed to optimize the optical performances of a telecentric setup, typically used for measurement purposes. With the use of both a .dll library and dedicated stand-alone tools, makes it easy to take care of all aspects of a typical telecentric setup (focusing, alignments, distortion calibration) which, if not properly addressed, can affect negatively the results of measurements.

TCLIB Suite helps improving the quality of the system, providing the best possible images for your chosen metrology software to get the best achievable measurement results. In fact, any edge detection, pattern matching and calibration software will be more accurate and reliable if based on well aligned, homogeneously backlit, undistorted images.

ALBERT

ALBERT is a complete and independent unit for visual inspection,based on the most advanced artificial intelligence techniques.

ALBERT learns the characteristics of a product directly from the production line and autonomously assesses its quality. ALBERT is very simple to use and does not require complicated programming procedures by experienced users, so it is quickly ready to control new products with different characteristics.

No traditional machine vision system is able to analyze complex objects or products with high variability as simply as a human operator would: ALBERT, on the other hand, interprets the concept of "quality" just like the fastest and most trained of your quality control operators. ALBERT is able to adapt to the production requirements of the moment since its “severity” level can be increased or decreased at the touch of a button, thus loosening or tightening the product acceptance criteria.

Each time, ALBERT chooses autonomously which will be the features to monitor that best describe the quality of your products. At any
time and with a simple click, ALBERT can learn how to sort a new product or adapt to changing production conditions.

HR area scan cameras

COE High Resolution Area Scan Cameras are purpose built for inspection applications by utilizing the highest resolution sensors available.

From 29 megapixels to 71 megapixels, we provide cameras that will do the job.

With many years of experience in the Machine Vision sector, Opto Engineering® offers a series of high resolution, high performance cameras to answer your needs.

COE HR AS cameras are designed to work in harsh and demanding environments, continuously providing outstanding images.

These area scan sensors are 3-point mounted for edge-to-edge sharpness and flatness across the entire image. Additional features include:
low smear, blooming suppression, 12-bit data paths, advanced triggering and built-in detectors that analyze camera performance,
and image processing to remove sensor defects. Combined with Opto Engineering® lenses and illuminators, we can assist in building a fast, reliable and cost-effective system.

360LIB Suite

360LIB Suite is a C++ based computer vision software designed to optimize the optical performances of 360° optics setup, as the ones typically used for single camera, lateral inspection purposes. With the use of both a .dll library and dedicated stand-alone tools, it makes it easy to take care of all the aspects of a typical 360° optics setup (correction of decentering and unwrapping) which, if not properly addressed, can affect negatively the results of the inspection, such as OCR/OCV/barcode reading..